Romana Jordan

Romana Jordan is a Slovenian politician and physicist. She serves as the Assistant Director for EU Affairs at the Jožef Stefan Institute. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2004-2014, during which she sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party, which is part of the European People's Party. Romana Jordan was born in the Styrian town of Celje, where she attended the Celje First Grammar School. In 1990 she graduated in electrical engineering at the University of Ljubljana and in 2000 she obtained a PhD on a thesis on nuclear engineering. Between 1990 and 2002 she worked as a researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. She entered active politics in 1998, when she was elected on the Supervisory Board of the municipality of Domžale. In 2002, she was elected member of the Domžale Municipal Council on the list of the Slovenian Democratic Party. In 2004, she was elected to the European Parliament.